LittleBigPlanet dated; swag offered

Little Big Planet is one of the most anticipated titles this holiday season for good reason: It’s the title that former Sony Exec Phil Harrison used to demonstrate Web 2.0 elements in video games. It lets players create levels and share them with others. It has cute characters. The gameplay is simple and accessible.

Well fans salivating for that experience, now have a release date to mark (if they hadn’t known already). According to the PlayStation blog, the Oct. 21 launch date is confirmed. The game has gone gold and Sony’s hamster machines are working double time to get those cases, manuals and discs done.

In the meantime, to celebrate, Sony is offering two launch week SackBoy costumes. One is an astronaut and the other is a nifty T-shirt. Not bad.